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...collapse of the Marcos government, however, is the paradigm of present- day Philippine politics and, as such, is well told in Impossible Dream, Sandra Burton's history-as-I-lived-it account of the assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno and its aftermath. As TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief from 1982 to 1986, Burton soaked up the Philippines' maudlin, heart-tugging, cutthroat, rumor-mad, pious, unethical spirit. Her book is not only the expected political thriller, full of intriguing Filipinos and meddling Americans, but a bizarre feudal drama set in a land where Sancho Panza, not Don Quixote, tilts...
...Impossible Dream, the black-and-white and good-and-evil of modern legend become shades of gray and swirls of clashing colors. Corazon Aquino may be a housewife in Burton's account, but she is far from naive. Her husband appears with little of the sanctity he has assumed since his martyrdom. To many & Filipinos, Burton notes, "Ninoy" Aquino and Marcos were merely two sides of the same coin. Yet, ultimately, Ninoy is a sainted Machiavellian. Scheming and plotting, he returns from self-exile in the U.S., a gambler going for broke. His last courageous bet: that Filipinos are worth...
...people in Alaska, 99% of them natives. But by 1959, when the territory became a state, the population had increased nearly sevenfold, and the typical Alaskan was no longer an Indian fisherman or an Inupiat hunter but a white storekeeper, bush pilot or construction worker. Today nonnatives account for 84% of the state's 530,000 people...
...gains during the 1970s were cut back by the Reagan administration. Since 1980, costs for public and private colleges have risen by 40 percent after inflation, while federal student aid has grown by only 3 percent. Moreover, the emphasis of student aid has shifted from grants to loans, which account for 66 percent of all aid, compared to 21 percent...
When asked whether or not a teaching fellow or professor had ever made the respondent feel uncomfortable on the account of his or her gender either inside or outside of class, most women Government concentrators stated that it happened rarely or never. However, women in Government, compared to both men Government concentrators and women non-Government social science concentrators, are more likely to state that a teaching fellow has made them feel uncomfortable in class...